Definitions for allotment

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allotment al·lot·ment

Spelling: [uh-lot-muh nt]

IPA: /əˈlɒt mənt/

Allotment is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 351 anagrams from letters in allotment (aellmnott).

Definitions for allotment

noun

1. the act of allotting.
2. a portion or thing allotted; a share granted.
3. (in U.S. military use) the portion of pay that an officer or enlisted person authorizes to be paid directly to another person, as a dependent, or an institution, as an insurance company.
4. British. a plot of land rented to a gardener.

Origin of allotment

1565-75; allot + -ment; compare French allotement

Examples for allotment

On the allotment of provinces, Sicily fell to him, with power to cross into Africa if he pleased.

Or I could make them over to a limited company, and join the board after allotment.

Everyone in the program would leave with some allowance, a tax-free monthly allotment.

But is the allotment correct and the reward proportioned by his efforts?

Her master was white but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too.

Having his own allotment of land, he was in a much larger sense a human being.

The goal is not any kind of division of income or allotment of property.

There are now allotment associations in many parts of the country.

The shares fell mighty low in the allotment, Davy; how was that?

The allotment of Rabirius Faustus is the only one known entirely.